Tuesday 31 May 2022

Church Family Prayer Walk in Budrio

Tomorrow evening, as church family, we'll have a Prayer Walk around Budrio.

In Filopanti Square, we'll intercede for our local government in view of the coming local elections on the 12th of June. 1 Timothy 2:1-2

At the local Middle School, we'll pray for the Principal and the possibility to continue to worship at their conference hall every Sunday morning. Acts 2:46-47

Finally, we'll stop at Budrio Sport Centre, where from the 20th to the 26th of June, we'll run our Exchnge Camp. We'll pray for campers and their families, as well as for the Gospel partnership with 3 Italian churches and Bethel church in Huston! 2 Timothy 3:14-15

Saturday 28 May 2022

SUNDAY SERVICE: Matthew 24:45-51 - The faithful manager is the one who thinks he's "smart"!

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 




We are glad for the Lord's provision of the conference hall at the local middle school, a strategic and well known location in our community.

At 10.30 we'll start our service with our series on Matthew's Gospel - The King & his Kingdom!
 
With Stefano we'll engage with Matthew 24:45-51 - The faithful manager is the one who thinks he's "smart"!
Together we'll see the beauty of Christ, who blesses the servant who's found busy in serving his church family and in Jesus' mission when he'll come back! Our desire is to live Paul's words: "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing" 2 Timothy 4:7-8
 
 
 

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage and families will have activities to keep interacting with God's Word during the week.

Thursday 26 May 2022

MySpace Club 4 Teens - FAQs: Can you hear God?


Tomorrow afternoon we'll have
our last My Space Club 4 Teens
for this school year.

We organize this club for local kids,
in partnership with Budrio Town Hall
as part of their after-school programme.

In this way, we've been given a room in Budrio's Library and social workers are sending some of the kids they follow. 
As part of our club, we also offer help
with their English home-works.

 


 
 
 
Together we'll engage with the YfC Rock Solid material, interacting with the theme: FAQs: Can you hear God?

 


We'll play lots of fun games like: Buzzee Bee, Change Place If..., Marco Polo, Listen Carefully, Communication Station, Apple Pie, God Speaks, Impaired, Social Distancing Games, which will serve as illustrations to Stefano's Talk from Hebrews 1:1-3, where we'll see that God is indeed speaking to us! He does it through His Word - the Bible, and though His Son - Jesus Christ, are we then ready to listen to His voice this summer? "In these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world" Hebews 1:2

Saturday 21 May 2022

SUNDAY SERVICE: Matthew 24:36-44 - The gentleman thief!

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 




We are glad for the Lord's provision of the conference hall at the local middle school, a strategic and well known location in our community.

At 10.30 we'll start our service with our series on Matthew's Gospel - The King & his Kingdom!
 
With Stefano we'll engage with Matthew 24:36-44 - The gentleman thief!
Together we'll see the beauty of Christ, who is like a "gentleman thief", warning us about is arrival, wanting us to be missionally ready for His Return: "Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you" Revelation 3:3
 
 
 

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage and families will have activities to keep interacting with God's Word during the week.

Thursday 19 May 2022

MySpace Club 4 Teens - Relax, it's Summer!


Tomorrow afternoon we'll have
our My Space Club 4 Teens
for this school year.

We organize this club for local kids,
in partnership with Budrio Town Hall
as part of their after-school programme.

In this way, we've been given a room in Budrio's Library and social workers are sending some of the kids they follow. 
As part of our club, we also offer help
with their English home-works.

 


 
 
 
Together we'll engage with the YfC Rock Solid material, interacting with the theme: Relax, it's Summer!

 

 

We'll play lots of fun games like: Extreme Sleeping Lions, Pair Em Up, Fill Your Cup, Carry my Burdens, It's a Balance, Social Distancing Games, which will serve as illustrations to Yan's Talk from Matthew 11:28, where we'll see that summer is coming, in fact it is already here. The expectations of stopping and saying goodbye to school at least for a while are great. But are summer holidays really enough to give us rest? If we listen to Jesus' words in Matthew 11:28: "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" we'll discover the true joyful rest, we can only experience in Jesus Christ.

Saturday 14 May 2022

Sunday Service @ Chiesa Evangelica di San Lazzaro


 

Tomorrow we'll be with our friends
from Chiesa Evangelica di San Lazzaro
for their Sunday morning service.
It will be great to fellowship with them
on The Lord's Day!



Stefano will preach from Matthew 11:16-30 - "Be like little children who receive and not like children who complain".

Together we'll see see the beauty of Christ who, to every generation exhausted from complaining at him, in order to affirm their false independence and who are oppressed by the heavy laden of man-made religion, says: - "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

SUNDAY SERVICE: Matthew 24:1-35 - This gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world!

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 




We are glad for the Lord's provision of the conference hall at the local middle school, a strategic and well known location in our community.

At 10.30 we'll start our service with our series on Matthew's Gospel - The King & his Kingdom!
 
With Matteo we'll engage with Matthew 24:1-35 - This gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world!
Together we'll see the beauty of Christ, for history is His Story, He made this world, and He came to dwell in it, walking among us, dying for our sins, rising again for our life, and He will return at the end of the present age to finish it all. In the meantime, he left us with His Great Commission: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age" Matthew 28:19-20
 
 
 

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage and families will have activities to keep interacting with God's Word during the week.

Friday 13 May 2022

Theology for Breakfast

Tomorrow we'll continue
our series of meetings:  
Theology for Breakfast! 
Following Luther's Table Talks example, we'll meet from 9 to 11am @ Central Café in Mezzolara where, while enjoying a breakfast with capuccino & croissants, we'll engage with God's Word discovering the beauty of theology in our everyday life!


We'll interact with the module: Gospel Relationships. With Stefano we'll start Unit 6. Work.
 
Relationships are fundamental to our identity, yet they are fraught with difficulty, fear, conflict and uncertainty. Coming to Christ puts us automatically into relationship with a community of his people. The gospel enables relationships to fulfil their purpose and design. The gospel transforms all our relationships. It resolves conflict, and gives new purpose to friendships, parenting and marriages. Together we'll discover how we can be freed to serve and love others with gospel intentionality. 

Thursday 12 May 2022

MySpace Club 4 Teens - Nicknames 3: Good Shepherd!


Tomorrow afternoon we'll have
our My Space Club 4 Teens
for this school year.

We organize this club for local kids,
in partnership with Budrio Town Hall
as part of their after-school programme.

In this way, we've been given a room in Budrio's Library and social workers are sending some of the kids they follow. 
As part of our club, we also offer help
with their English home-works.

 


 
 
 
Together we'll engage with the YfC Rock Solid material, interacting with the theme: Nicknames 3: Good Shepherd!

 

We'll play lots of fun games like: Sheep and Wolves, Protect The Flock, Counting Sheep, What Am I?, Number Game, The Good Shepherd, Sheep/Shepherd/Share, Thought, Quick Fame, Social Distancing Games, which will serve as illustrations to Stefano's Talk from John 10:11-15, where we'll explore Jesus' Nickname: Good Shepherd! We'll see the beauty of Jesus, whi said: I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” John 10:11

Saturday 7 May 2022

SEEKERS Club14-19: seek, and you will find!

Tomorrow afternoon we'll have our Seekers Club for 14/19 years old students, organized by YfC Italy 
 
Tomorrow, we'll be hosted by San Lazzaro Church and with Chris, we'll engage with Matthew 25:31-46 - the King will judge: "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne." Matthew 25:31
In this study we'll see that to welcome Jesus' messengers and their Gospel message, is to welcome Christ himself! To copy the life and appearance of a disciple of Christ is not enough, one must really be one, because on that great day, the glorious King will separate those who belong to him from those who may have only pretended.

SUNDAY SERVICE: Matthew 23 - Jesus' warning, woe and lament!

Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.

 




We are glad for the Lord's provision of the conference hall at the local middle school, a strategic and well known location in our community.

At 10.30 we'll start our service with our series on Matthew's Gospel - The King & his Kingdom!
 
With Stefano we'll engage with Matthew 23 - Jesus' warning, woe and lament!
Together we'll see the beauty of Christ, who in His lament over Jerusalme, shows us all hi love and justice: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not! See, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'." Matthew 23:37-39
 
 
 

We'll have a children's talk where kids will engage with the same Bible passage and families will have activities to keep interacting with God's Word during the week.

Thursday 5 May 2022

MySpace Club 4 Teens - Nicknames 2: Servant!


Tomorrow afternoon we'll have
our My Space Club 4 Teens
for this school year.

We organize this club for local kids,
in partnership with Budrio Town Hall
as part of their after-school programme.

In this way, we've been given a room in Budrio's Library and social workers are sending some of the kids they follow. 
As part of our club, we also offer help
with their English home-works.

 


 
 
 
Together we'll engage with the YfC Rock Solid material, interacting with the theme: Nicknames 2: Servant!


 

We'll play lots of fun games like: 5 Star Service, Shoe Chuck, Milko, He did it..., Who's The Greatest?, Topsy Turvy, Big Made Small, Let's Serve, In Action!, Social Distancing Games, which will serve as illustrations to Stefano's Talk from Matthew 20:20-28, where we'll explore Jesus' Nickname: Servant! We'll see that Jesus was God in human form. The owerful, huge, mind-blowing God came to earth as a human. The ultimate big thing made small! Indeed: Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:28

Tuesday 3 May 2022

AppMatthew - Mid-Week Bible Study

This evening we'll have our AppMatthew (Applying Matthew's Gospel), our series of Mid-Week Bible Studies in which we'll keep interacting with what we're learning through the preaching in our Sunday services

We'll meet at the Bookshop-Café La Terza Stanza, in Budrio. Stefano will lead this time where, as church-family we'll engage with Matthew 22.